Stevie [about the climate change treaty]: You guys think the Senate is gonna ratify?
Elizabeth: You mean act rationally and sacrifice minor short term domestic gains for the greater good?
Henry: Oh yeah, they always do stuff like that.

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Blake [about the sand mandala]: Uh, I still don't get the point.
Elizabeth: That is the point.
Blake: No. Due respect, ma'am, not getting the point can't possibly be the point. You can say that about anything.
Elizabeth [points at Blake]: Exactly.

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Blake: I don't get it. These monks spend all week, painstakingly arranging colored sand to fit this blueprint, and then "whoosh," they just sweep it away? What's the point?
Nadine: That is the point.
Daisy: Everything's transitory.
Matt: Everything ends.
Blake: That's...very sad.
Nadine: Even that feeling...that'll pass too.
Blake: Okay, now you're just piling on.

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Okay, you know, Buddhism clearly isn't for neurotics.

Blake

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